Could Stu be Right about Life from Non-Life . ? ? ? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For billions of years, the history of life has been written with just four letters â A, T, C and G, the labels given to the DNA subunits contained in all organisms. That alphabet has just grown longer, researchers announce, with the creation of a living cell that has two 'foreign' DNA building blocks in its genome. Hailed as a breakthrough by other scientists, the work is a step towards the synthesis of cells able to churn out drugs and other useful molecules. It also raises the possibility that cells could one day be engineered without any of the four DNA bases used by all organisms on Earth. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/07/living-organism-artificial-dna_n_5283095.html
Who wants to play God? Raise your hand! And on the seventh day, man brought forth immortality. And it was like "Holy smokes! We can live to be three hundred now!"
If you want to play god - create a vacuum devoid of all matter, then say to the vacuum "let there be life" bringing into existence life from absolutely nothing.
yep that's doable. All you need is a universe - from nothing. God's only a virtual particle. http://www.nature.com/news/a-vacuum-can-yield-flashes-of-light-1.12430 http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-virtual-particles-rea/
Which leads you back to the continuing argument, if the Higgs Boson is the missing part of the puzzle, it takes a finely tuned universe to produce it. "As The Economist explains: "One problem [with the Higgs discovery] is that, as it stands, the [Standard] model requires its 20 or so constants to be exactly what they are to an uncomfortable 32 decimal places . Insert different values and the upshot is nonsensical predictions, like phenomena occurring with a likelihood of more than 100%" (p. 72, emphasis added throughout)." http://www.ucg.org/science/god-science-and-bible-higgs-boson-evidence-universes-fine-tuning/
"Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge." -- Thomas Edison
Not really. You were talking about a universe from nothing, not how a universe evolves once it has come from nothing.